Day 4 : 40th JABA National Championship at Kyocera Dome Osaka

Right-hander Morikawa brought the win for JFE West Japan (Hiroshima) by narrowing defeating Saunomiya Seisakusho (Tokyo), Nippon Express (Saitama) crushed Vitalnet (Niigata) by 16 hits of all the startin g lineup and left-handed pitcher Hasegawa of Yamaha (Shizuoka) shut out the two-time champion Toshiba (Kanagawa) allowing only 3 hits. The 3 winners will advance to the third round.

Preliminaries:

Day 1 November 1:
77 Bank (Miyagai)　1－2　　Yamaha (Shizuoka)
Nichidai Corporation　(Kyoto) 5－1　Nippon Paper Industries Ishinomaki (Miyagi)
TOYOTA (Aichi)　3－0　Nippon Shinyaku (Kyoto)　

Day 2 November 2:
Japan Railway Kyushu (Fukuoka)　6－7　Japan Railways East (Tokyo)　
Honda Suzuka (Mie) 4－5　 Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance (Tokyo)
HONDA (Saitama)　2－1　Japan Railways East Tohoku (Miyagi)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Hiroshima (Hiroshima)　1－7　JFE East Japan (Chiba)

Day 3 November 3:
Japan Railways West Japan (Hiroshima　2－5　Nippon Life Insurance (Osaka)
Segasammy (Tokyo)　7–6 　Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe (Hyogo)
PANASONIC (Osaka)　3－2　Toho Gas (Aichi)
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Day 4 November 4:
JFE West Japan (Hiroshima)　2–1 Saginomiya Seisakusho (Tokyo)
Vitalnet (Niigata)　1－10　Nippon Express (Saitama)
Toshiba（Kanagawa）　0－2　Yamaha (Shizuoka)

Day 5 November 5:
NTT West Japan (Osaka) － Seibu Gas (Fukuoka)
NTT East Japan (Tokyo) 　－　Japan Railways Shikoku (Kagawa)
Japan Railways Hokkaido (Hokkaido) －　　Osaka Gas (Osaka)

Day 6 November 2:
Seino Transportation (Gifu)　– Ibaragi Golden Golds (Ibaragi
Winner of Nichidai/Nippon Paper Ishinomaki 　－　　Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagoya